Brain Storming

One game that I played is “Jenga”, which is marketed by Parker Brothers, I have enjoyed it till now with my family and friends. The successful things of this game are; easy instructions, no limitation of age, and also many people can play this at the same time. The idea of pulling and stalking with the wooden sticks is inspiring, and I wish there were more versions, like variation of colors or shapes.

*Brain Storming (Ideas & Themes)

1. Like Chess, Checkers, which needs two players to play, and involves diagonal moves of the game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces. Needs abstract strategy?  Will my game make two people compete each other?

2. Will my board game design is for race games, like cross and circle, using basic board game method?  

3. Connection might involve forming a path between two or more goals, completing a closed loop, or connecting all of one's pieces so they are adjacent to each other. Will my board game use this connection mechanic?

4. By reflecting the world, especially economy, such as money managing, buy estates, paying taxes. How about making money simulation game? With different theme?

5. My game would probably have “guessing” in which the object is to guess some kind of information, such as a word, a phrase, a title, or the location of an object.

6. Word games and puzzles are spoken or board games often designed to test ability with language or to explore its properties, will my game be the word games?

7. My game would have the basic mechanic of Roll-and-Move, in which a player's token or tokens are moved based on results shown on a die or dice.

8. My game probably is a game which is played by several players. The players might be independent opponents, formed into teams or be just a single team pitted against the game.

9. My game would be Zombie Theme, for example, taking on the role of a heroes or heroines stranded in a small town that has mysteriously been overrun by zombies.

10. My game would be inspired by World War Theme, based on the World War 1 or World War 2, consists of the army, territories and strategy to attain the power.

11. Inspired by Wild West era; the chaotic period with full of fights, and symbolized by the cowboys, pubs, horses, and sheriffs. Will my game utilize this Wild West theme?

12. My game might be Vampire Theme. Due to the Twilight fever, the Vampire theme would be familiar for all generations. The night, vampire, hunters, castle, are the items for founding vampire world.

13. There are many super heroes; Superman, Batman, Spiderman, Wolverine, Captain America, and etc. The players can get vicarious thrill out of playing superpowers on the board game. What about using the super heroes in combination with economic simulation?

14. My game would probably is the prison theme which is mostly trying to accomplish the ultimate goal; to escape. The inmates, guard, fights consist the prison environment.

15. My game probably is fantasy themed board games could be created by putting various symbolic items, like, dragons, monsters, fairies, ogres, demons, magic powers, wizards and etc.

16. By giving the chilling atmosphere and settings, my game would be the horror theme games would give the tension to the board gaming playing by using, mysterious or ghost themes.

17. My game would probably be in alien theme. The UFO, and the Aliens would be the core items in this theme. Players could be the human beings to protect the Earth, or the aliens try to invade.

18. In my board game, players making deals with one another. Two-player games most usually do not involve diplomacy. Thus, negotiation generally features only in games with three or more players.

19. Games that are designed to help people to learn about certain subjects, expand concepts, reinforce development, understand an historical event or culture, or assist them in learning a skill as they play. Will my board game be educational?

20. Family games are aim for all ages, enjoying holidays or when people gather up in special occasion. Enhancing the social skills and team works among the players. Will my game be family game?

The favorite ideas that I aim for making the board game are; 2,7,8,11,15, and 20

1. (20,8,11)  To make a family game, it should contain easy instructions to follow and catch up the game mechanics, and also there should not be any cruel, horror, scary, adult, and undesirable contents on the game. It should a be sound board game targeting all ages, so I looked through classic board games in United States, China and Korea. I will probably adapting the Chinses “Majang” game mechanic by making little simple in instructions and mixing with Western theme.

2. (2,7,15,) As I was huge fan of Harry Potter series, I always like the fantasy theme, the wizard and magic, dragons, dungeons and so on. I would like to put more this fantasy theme on the board, adapting and mixing with Korean traditional board game “Yut” mechanics. I will test on the proto types, asking my ideas to family members or to friends who are not Koreans to know this game idea is easy to pick up and play.

3. (2,7,15,20) Aiming the children and whole family, I am also thinking of cute-fantasy game. The mushroom elves and the fairies are the main characters, and background is in fantasy wood forest. The ultimate goal of this board game would be collecting golden coins as many as possible until the game ends. To collect the golden coins, the players must attack their opponents or monsters during the rounds, by using special magic cards. The cards have special numbers of attacking level, defending level, and special shield (optional).